In a series of blog posts, Fletcher School admissions highlights their three interns and welcomes them to the office. One of their Interns, Katie, is a Lebanese Egyptian from Cairo interested in Human Security and NGO & Public Management. She’s extremely excited to be here and said,

Despite being far from Egypt, I felt at home at Fletcher right away. Between the exciting stories my fellow Fletcherians tell, and the numerous courses to choose from, I feel like a kid in a candy shop!

The LGBT Center chose to show their love through a video introducing seven undergraduate and graduate interns as well as two graduate staff assistants and the center director, Tom Bourdon. In the video, the entire staff return the love to their home away from home:

Fletcher thesis haikus share the ancient Japanese poetry’s three line (seventeen syllable) format. What Fletcher “thes-kus” lack in seasonal imagery, they make up for in variety and creativity.”

Here are some notable examples of Fletcher theses in Haiku form:

Elspeth Suthers
Corruption and Ethnic Tensions in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan — Reconceiving the Citizen-State Relationship In the Former USSR
Kyrgyzstan. Georgia.
Governance not good for me
Stalin’s ghost laughing.

Andrew Daehne
Hip-Hop and Politics in Senegal: The Power of a Movement to Mobilize Through Music
Hip-hop, politics.
Would Senegal please stand up?
Rap, vote with your beat.

Jacqueline DeelstraCitizen Monitoring of Government Service Delivery: Using Mobile Phones to Amplify Citizen Voice and Enforce Accountability. A case study of Kenya, Tanzania and UgandaGovernment neglect
People need water, teachers
SMS can help?

Ida Norheim Hagtun
Humanitarian Action Powered by SMS — What Are the Ethics and Accountability Implications of Using SMS to ‘Crowdsource’ Humanitarian Needs Assessments?
You gave them a say.
Now they expect proper aid.
Are you ready yo?